HMS Fly (1813) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich. She was ordered 23 April 1812, launched on 16 February 1813 and commissioned May 1813.[1]

She served:[1]

  • on the Channel station under Sir William G. Parker from May 1813,[2]
  • on the Newfoundland Station from June 1814 until paid off in April 1815,
  • on the Cork station, after recommissioning in 1818, until December 1821,
  • on Cape of Good Hope Station from December 1821,
  • in South America from 1823,
  • in East Indies from 1825.

In December 1826 Fly, under Captain Frederick Augustus Wetherall,[3] supported the short-lived settlement of Western Port, in southern Victoria, Australia.[4]

She was sold in Bombay on 10 April 1828.[1]

See also

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d Winfield (2008), p. 304.
  2. ^ O'Byrne 1849.
  3. ^ O'Byrne 1849b.
  4. ^ HRA 1922, Series 3, Volume 5, pp 827ff.
  5. ^ Laughton1901, pp. 143–145.

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